THE PRESIDENT OF THE UPPER HOUSE OF RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT A ACHEVE SA
VISITS IN REPUBLIC TCHEQUE








PRAGUE, March 2.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Viktor Proussakov).  The
president of the Council of the Federation (Upper House of the Russian
Parliament) Iegor Stroiev has acheve Friday his visit official in
Tcheque Republic.  He A qualifies his meeting with tcheque president
Vaclav Havel of " benevolent ".

Iegor Stroiev transmitted to the tcheque leader a message of Russian
president Vladimir Poutine, his wish of cooperer in the future and to
organize a meeting of the heads of the two countries in tcheque
republic.  Vaclav Havel received with satisfaction, according to the
president of the Upper House.

The tcheque president east states himself interests in the friendly
contacts with the Russian politicians.  " the sincerite is the base of
our relations ", according to Vaclav Havel.